My Travels Around The World
January 2016
Home: Final Thoughts
[Most of this was written during our layover in London on Saturday. It's now 4:40am on Sunday, January 10. I've gotten a total of about [...]
Day 8: Rome, Part 3
It's 1pm Saturday London time. Dan and I are having lunch in the British Airways lounge. He's playing a video game on his iPad that [...]
Day 7: Rome, Part 2
I got up about 6:30am; Dan about an hour later. He woke up with that tell-tale scratch in the back of his throat. Bummer. He felt worse [...]
Day 6: Florence to Rome
We slept until the alarm went off...the first snooze, actually, which was 6:40am. That clocked me in at about 7.5 hours, Dan at about 6. [...]
Day 5: Florence
Dan finally caught up on sleep, getting about 9 hours. I did OK at 6, although they weren't very restful. The cold is moving on [...]
Day 4: Venice to Florence
I slept on and off for about 6 hours, Dan only slept 2 or 3. I was up around 5am, did some work until 6:30 [...]
Day 3: Venice
Since we are supposed to be on vacation, we're not setting the alarm unless we absolutely have to be somewhere. That resulted in not getting [...]
Day 2: Milan to Venice; The Last Supper
Dan did not sleep well at all last night. But he's sleeping now (it's 11:17pm local time as I start this) so that's a good [...]
Day 1: Milan
We were still awake last night when midnight struck and got to see lots of fireworks from our 6th floor hotel window. Fireworks were being [...]
December 2015
Departure: Sacramento to Milan
A pretty typical travel day with no curve balls thrown. Grateful for that. And I'm always amazed once we get to that first destination - [...]
Pre-Departure
Why Italy in January? This trip was created out of a variety of circumstances. The airline tickets have been booked since April because Dan had [...]
Laundry and Office
I think these are pretty self-explanatory. Paint, new cabinets, appliances and light fixtures. Before. After. Notice the light fixture is skewed. That's on purpose so [...]
Kitchen
This is where the most work was done. Again, a gut job. All new appliances, cabinets, flooring, and the hutch removed. The only thing that [...]
Bathroom
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] Because we lined up the sink, shower and toilet all on [...]
Living Room (part 2)
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] Theirs. Ours. This is the entrance to the bathroom from [...]
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